New York: Published by D. Longworth, at the Shakespeare Gallery, L. Nichols, Print, 1804. First edition illustrated by Alexander Anderson, issue without the series title for Longworth's Select Modern Poets. Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 224; not found in American Bibliography. An early work by the prolific American wood engraver.....

Litchfield, (CT): Printed by Collier and Buel, [1793]. First edition, state A. Stoddard & Whitesell 448; Wegelin 489; Evans 25104; BAL 4976 (Dunlap) & 5046 (Dwight). The first anthology of American poetry; a second volume was planned, but never published. Smith (1771-1798), a physician and author who died at 28.....

(London: Printed and Published by Villiers Publications for Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, 1961.), First edition. OCLC records five holdings (SFPL, Cal State LA, Yale, LC, Montana Historical Society). A collaborative novella about college life in Helena, Montana, during the 1930s, and the social interactions among a group of students.....

Madrid: Imprenta de Sancha, 1790-93. A mixed set of later printings or editions; the first editions of the five volumes were originally published over a six-year period beginning in 1786. Cf. Palau 12207. The popular and influential account of Italy by Juan Andrés y Morell (1740-1817), the Spanish Jesuit priest.....

London: Printed in the Year, 1689. First edition. ESTC R10117; Wing S5329; NCBEL I, 1223 (A. Marvell). 28 tracts on English affairs during the reign of Charles II, written mostly as anonymous pamphlets during the decade 1671-1681 and compiled here as an act of preservation "for the sole use of.....

London: Printed by Malachi****, for Edith Bates, Relict of the Aforesaid Mr. Bates, and sold by W. Owen, 1756. First edition. ESTC T77673; Block, The English Novel, page 140. A forerunner to Laurence Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, with numerous parallels in style and subject matter. In.....

London: Printed for J. Bell, 1786. First edition. Sabin 61167; ESTC T43897. An opera in part based on Marmontel's Tale of the Coralie, with music by James Hook (1746-1827). A note on the front free endpaper in a learned bookseller's hand attributes the authorship to Harriet Horncastle Hook, the wife.....

London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. First edition, the issue with the price beneath the imprint. ESTC T187239; Foxon A296; Hayward 168; NCBEL II, 535. A long poem in blank verse on the virtues of fresh air, diet, exercise, and the passions. John Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician.....

London: Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilford and J. Clarke, 1734. First edition. ESTC T56391; NCBEL II, 798: "Doubtfully attributed to Ralph." A detailed travel guide to London's architecture, monuments, fashionable squares, and statues from "mere Gothic heaps of stone, without form or order" to the stately works of.....

Taunton: Printed by and for Thomas Norris; London: Sold by Carpenter, E. Newbery, Hurst and Co., [et al], (1800). First edition; there were two subsequent editions. ESTC T108778 records five copies in the British Isles (BL [2], Morrab, Oxford, Somerset; and five in North America (HEH, Columbia, Free Library of.....

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Robinson, Wayward Women, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....

London: Printed and Sold by A. Millar, 1760. First and only edition; there was a reissue in 1861 with a cancel title. ESTC T136422; NCBEL II, 640. The first book by the Scottish poet and philosopher James Beattie. Ink signature of Jas. French, dated 1764, on the title-page.

Chaalons’ [i.e. Châlons-sur-Marne], ‘pour la Communauté des Libraires’, 1735. New edition, apparently unrecorded. Not found on OCLC or the Union Catalogue of France (CCFr). By the late 17th century, the French government attempted to regulate all aspects of printing and the distribution of books in and around Paris. In 1686.....

London: John Murray, 1821. See NCBEL II, 643. A collection of the writings of William Lisle Bowles (1752-1860) in which he defends himself against attacks he had received from Byron, Thomas Campbell, Octavius Gilchrist (a "Certain Critic and Grocer") and others over his treatment of Alexander Pope in the ten-volume.....

New York: The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1924. First edition. In 1849, Swedish novelist and writer Fredrika Bremer (1801-1865) came to North America for a two-year tour of the United States and Cuba, which she documented in letters to her sister, Agatha and published as The Homes of the New World. It.....

London: Printed for L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1760. First edition. ESTC T1560; NCBEL II, 826; Eddy, John Brown, 61. A dialogue by "Estimate" Brown (1715-1766) in which he responds to political positions taken by Lord Lyttelton in his famous Dialogues of the Dead (1760), which had appeared earlier the.....

Kent: Printed at the Private Press of Lee Priory, By John Warwick, 1818. First edition. Lowndes vol. 8, page 221, #41; Woodworth, The Literary Career of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, 70. A collection of six funeral memorials in verse, with annotations on the publication history, brief biographies of the authors.....

London: Chapman and Hall, 1843. First English edition, preceded a few months by the American edition. Smith, American Travellers Abroad, C2; Sabin 9889; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 233; Theakstone, Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers, page 65. “This is the earliest and most balanced first-hand account of Mexico to be written.....

London: Printed by William Bulmer and Co., Shakespeare Printing Office; for John White, 1805. First and only edition. See Colbert, Women Travel Writers, 1780-1840. Topographically inspired poetry about Turkey, Syria and Greece by Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1759-1804), posthumously edited by his sister Susanna Maria Carlyle (1752-1833), handsomely printed by William.....

Bristol: Printed by George Routh, for the Author, n.d. [circa 1800]. First edition. ESTC T222838, which records two copies: BL and South Hampton; JISC adds four: National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews, and Wellcome; OCLC adds one, NYPL (Phforzheimer, apparently the only copy in America); and see Jackson, Romantic Poetry.....

London: Printed for F. Cogan, 1749 [&] 1750. First edition. ESTC T79268; Teerink 81 (Supplement); Case, English Poetical Miscellanies, 467; NCBEL II, 472, 476, 483, etc. Three volumes, complete, of an important English poetical miscellany which the editor and publisher Francis Cogan assembled for the cause of preserving what he.....

London: Printed by J. Morphew, 1713. First edition. ESTC 66953; Goldsmiths' 5090; not found in NCBEL. A discussion about the injurious effects of gambling on the character and the purse in a dialogue between Callimachus and Dolomedes, set in early 18th century England. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726) was famous for his.....

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1698. First edition, first issue without the advertisement and errata. ESTC R18926; Wing C5844; Lowe, English Theatrical Literature, 298. A famous response to clergyman Jeremy Collier’s Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698), in which Collier cited aspects of four.....

London: Richard Bentley, 1843. First English edition and first edition in book form. BAL 3903; Spiller, page 122; OCLC records 14 copies, to which JISC adds four. One of Cooper’s lesser known works, a venture into the popular 18th and 19th century genre of fiction narrated by an inanimate object.....

London: John Henry Jackson, 1854. First edition. OCLC and Library Hub record the same later printing dated 1855 at BL. An essay on courtesy addressed by an anonymous author to his cousin, "The Hon. Henry H." who apparently had written a popular novel which received "large circulation" and many public.....

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. First edition in a fine designer binding by Louise Genest. First edition. David Belch, proprietor of the Scarab Press and well-known biblio-bon vivant of the San Francisco Bay Area (circa 1960s-2010), commissioned several fine binders to design and produce bindings on Printing Poetry by Clifford.....

(San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1927). First edition, one of 250 numbered copies, this one out of series. Magee, Grabhorn Press Bibliography, 91, which does not describe this binding. A translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes - the Book of Kohelet - by Orientalist Morris Jastrow, first published.....

[Boston], 1857. Myerson and Wilson, Picturing Emerson: An Iconography, Appendix A. Joseph Carew was active between 1840-1870 and worked in partnership with his brother Thomas Carew in the firm Carew & Brothers, Sculptors, at 143 Harrison Avenue, Boston, near the Common. His sculptures were exhibited at the Boston Athenaeum on.....

See Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1163-1172; ESTC T20784; T20781; T20780; T20726 and T45401; NCBEL II, 812. A gathering of five important pamphlets dealing with the acrimonious dispute between two groups of partners of the Covent Garden Theatre - usually referred to as the “Proprietors' Dispute” - a......

London: T. Rodd, 1827. First edition, second issue; the first issue was dated 1825; this second issue has a cancel title with a slightly revised imprint dated 1827. NCBEL III, 1644; Lowndes, page 705. An early work by Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), the prolific compiler, editor and scholar. See the.....

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; and John Hatchard, 1809. First edition. An Oxford Prize Poem, introduced by a synopsis of the primary points covered, including: "Lamentation over the miseries of Palestine . . . Present Appearance of the Country, with its Present Inhabitants Described . ....

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 2019. First edition. A bio-history of the engaging San Francisco bookseller and botanical printmaker Henry Evans (1918-1990), who founded the Porpoise Bookshop and Peregrine Press in San Francisco in the early 1950s with the assistance of wife Patricia and daughter Judith. Evans later.....

Paris: Barba, Libraire, 1812. First edition. Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictivia, 1639. A scarce study of literary forgery by French author, antiquary and bibliophile Charles Nodier (1780-1844), who was also apparently well versed in the subject: "The French C19 saw Charles Nodier, whose Questions de Littérature Légale . . . is a......

London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1747. Second edition, issued the same year as the first. ESTC T89864; Cross III, 315; NCBEL II, 930. A satire in the form of a dialogue, in which Henry Fielding sheds positive light on the policies of the government against Republican sentiments. An alderman and.....

London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by A. Millar, 1743. First edition, ordinary paper issue. ESTC N11032; Cross III, pages 308-09. An important work by Henry Fielding (1707-54), an assemblage of poems, essays, satires, dialogues, plays and prose fiction, several examples of which appear here for the first time.....

London, 2020. First edition, one of 250 copies. A remarkable collection of seventy-five poems by the poet, scholar and antiquarian bookseller Arthur Freeman. Twelve of the poems are unpublished with sixty-three from nine previously published collections, spanning seven decades. Freeman writes with wit and style, in a voice his own.....

La Haye: (Société Typographique de Bouillon), 1772. First edition. OCLC records nine copies: four in the US (UCLA, Harvard, Princeton and Vanderbilt) and five in European libraries. A philosophical novel, written in the tradition of Persian letters and the Oriental tale, by journalist and revolutionary Jean-Louis Carra (1742-93) who, among.....

London: Printed for J. Tonson, 1724. First edition, first state with A4 not canceled. Rothschild 923; NCBEL II, 498; ESTC T13811. One of John Gay's lessor known works, a tragedy that met with little success and has been long overshadowed by The Beggar's Opera, but it has a clever, humorous.....

London: Printed for B. and J. White, 1796. First edition. ESTC T138168; NCBEL II, 1561. Three clever dialogues by William Gilpin (1724-1804), the educator and writer on the picturesque, purporting to be conversations between one Dr. Joseph Frampton and the famous theologian and scholar Edward Stillingfleet (1635-1699), as copied from.....

London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, Wayward Women, pages 44-45; see the ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband.....

London: Printed for J. and T. Tonson, 1756. First edition. ESTC T97706. A clever collection of maxims, interwoven with short character sketches (Camilla, Melissa, Praxiteles, Flora, etc.) and reflections, written in collaboration by Fulke Greville and his wife, the poet Frances Macartney Greville. Fulke Greville (1717-1806) was handsome dandy, an.....

Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....

London: Printed by W. S. for Samuell Macham, 1609. First edition, one of two issues, this one with the variant imprint noted in STC. STC 12694a; NCBEL I, 1977. One of Joseph Hall's earliest published sermons, delivered at Paul's Cross on Good Friday, 1609. Hall (1574-1656) was a popular clergyman.....

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1853. First edition of the first French translation of three of Hawthorne's tales: "David Swan," "Rappaccini's Daughter," and "Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe." OCLC records five copies (Bibliotheque Nationale de France and two others in France, Harvard and UVa); there is also a copy at Stanford. One.....

London: Printed for J. Johnson by T. Bensley, 1807. First edition. Keynes 3; NCBEL III, 1231. William Hazlitt's third book, an abridgment of the magnum opus of 18th century English philosopher Abraham Tucker (1705-1774). The Light of Nature Pursued was first published over ten years (1768-78) in seven volumes., under.....

London: Printed for T. Hookham, 1825. First edition, second issue with the title-page a cancel, replacing the original 1813 title-page and preface. Block, The English Novel, page 111; Noted under Garside & Schöwerling 1813:30; OCLC and Copac together record three copies of this second issue (BL, Leeds, and Yale) and.....

Boston: Ticknor and Company, 1885. First edition. BAL 9619, state 1; Wright III, 2829. ¶ Howells’ most famous novel, and one of the cornerstone works of American realistic fiction, the story of the newly rich businessman, Silas Lapham, his frustrations in dealing with Boston brahmins and his rise and eventual.....

London: Sold by J. Ridley, G. Kearsly and W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1766. Fifth edition; first published in London in 1760. ESTC T12472. A widely reprinted tract by the Quaker minister Sophia Hume (1702-1774), who was born and bred in luxury in Charleston, South Carolina, but cast off her.....

N.p., n.d., ¶ An unusually large and fine engraving of the iconic portrait of Washington Irving as a young man, when he was living in London, painted by his friend Charles Robert Leslie in about 1820, at the time the Sketch Book was being published. Thomas Johnson flourished as an.....